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Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1887-07-21

"For the past four years have sold a large
amount OF Adamson's Botanic Balsam, and it
has given such universal satisfaction, that
ALWAYS recommend it b fore anything else for
coughs and colds.
"E c. POWERS. Druggist.
"Danvers, Mass.
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Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1887-07-21
Taxes of 1887.

STATE OF MAINE, !
City Of Augusta.
TREAsuRER's NOTICE.
The State, County. City, Village and Williams
School District Taxes, assessed in the City of
Augusta for the year lss7, have been committed 10
Guy Turner Collector of said city, for collection by
warrant of the Assessors of said city, dated june
10th, 1887 and said Collector Ia required to complete
and make return of said collections the Treasurer
OF said city, on or before the first day of March, 1855
And In conformity with the provisions of law no
tice s hereby given that by vote of the City Coun
Gil of said city, and of the Village District in said
city, said taxes now due and payable to the Col
lector. on or before August Is, 1857, and that an
abatement or Discount of Six Per Cent will be al.
lowed on all City and Village School District
taxes voluntarily paid on or before that
day, and interest at six per cent will be added to all
taxes remaining unpaid September 1, 1857.
GUY TURNER,
June IL, 1857. Treasurer of Augusta.
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IdCerftsJng Rates
RnnK ANn InR PRINTING.

Css BE- had on application A. the ofhes. IN
Daily and Weekly taken together Aa0ra me D@s
rr~ffarn this action Of The STATE.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1887-07-21

For sale every wednesd&y necn =, .he cc1x.syrs
Of " Pierce Augusta. G. L. spa1leing' h@'loNe4'
o. ". blanchard. Gsrdinsr
n rot paid within the year the Daily IL ts~
vsay ara the Weekly tklsD.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1887-07-21

After the Union Pacific had received
assistance from the Z ) Government its
officials have had the cheek to charge Uncle
Sam o. more per ton for hauling coal
than they did other parties, over the same
distance. # time that investigation was
mad.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1887-07-21

Cbicago's Mayor. Mr.. Roche is proving
himself u very good officer. Since he
came into office system of securing has
been in constant operation. Honest and
faithful men have been appointed to the
city offices and dishonest officials have
received punishment. lie has not stopped
here he has closed up dens and gamb-
ling shops. thereby driving from the city
crowd OF roughs who have always been
the cause OF disturbance and crime.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1887-07-21

Unless the French ministry takes an
immediate and wise course in the DISPOSE
ton OF Boulanger. the old general will
not only outwit them but precipitate the
State into difficulties with Germany.
The democrats OF Ohio are making over
tures to the labor party and il is not I'M
likely that they will both nominate the
same man for governor. us a matter Of
lite and death with the democrats.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1887-07-21

II reports are to be credited the Knights
OF Labor are upon the verge OF a complete
dissolution. The warning between the
various elements of the organization has
continued until whole assemblies have
withdrawn. 1t is estimated that the order
has lost 50 900 members IN Massachusetts
alone, and the total loss is placed at from
100000 to 400. 900. These figures are
probably too large but may Indicate APP
proxmately the change In membership.
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Found.
Wanted.

Wy ANTED-An active. energetic. ambitious
w woman over Is years of age. to represent
house in her own locality References
Steady position $50 10 $50 month.
f. DE ANGELS. NJ anaRer, l7 Warren ST., New ork.
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The Universalist. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1884-1897, 1887-06-11
THE FOES OF PLANT LIFE,

The foes of plant life abound. These
foes consist not only Of the large and the
small of animal life, but, also, of q great
variety Of minute vegetable organisms
which live upon, and derive their nour-
ishment from the higher forms of plants
and are Familiarity known as differ
emit kinds of rusts, smuts and mildew
All these iniure and destroy more or less
of our cultivated plants. Cultivated
plants are apparently more infested with
parasites and predatory insects than wild
ones, and undoubtedly they really are
Although the same insects and the same
forms of fungi may attack plant in it's
wild as in its cultivated state, yet from
the fact that in the latter case large num-
bers of the plants are aggregated, so their
foes are brought together within small
range, and we are enabled to perceive
them, when in wild state they would
remain for the most part unnoticed; but
that there is numerical increase of in
dividuals there can be no doubt, the
changed condition of the plants in various
ways making them more attractive to
their pests and more capable of support
ing them.
Thus, while the farmer, the gardener
and the fruit grower increases his crops.
he also makes more favorable the opportu-
mites for their destruction. The attention
of the successful cultivator cannot, there
fore be confined to the mere routine of
the direct means Of rearing and gather
ing his crops, but must also be directed
with great care to the habits of those en-
emies which constantly threaten their in.
jury and destruction VicA's Magazine
for Nay.
The Universalist. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1884-1897, 1887-06-11

of whales, the lecturer made some remarks
on the rate of speed at which they trav-
eled. 1t has been estimated, he said,
that the Greenland whale could attain a
speed OF nine or ten miles an hour and
that the finer whales attained even a
greater speed. In all probability the
Longniddry whale could propel itself
through the water at the rate of twelve
miles an hour, and the sperm whale was
said to be capable of driving itself along
at the same rate of speed. He had asked
Mr.. John Henderson, of Glasgow, the
well-known builder Of theIAnchor liners,
to assist him in arriving at the horse
power which must be exercised by one Of
these great whales 30 as to secure speed
of twelve miles an hour, and he put the
case Of the Longniddry whale before him.
1t was eighty feet long, weighed about
seventy-four tons, and had tail eighteen
feet to twenty feet across from the ex-
treme ends OF it's hanges. With these
data Mr. Henderson calculated that a
whale of the dimensions mentioned, in
order to attain a speed of twelve miles an
hour, would require to exercise q propel-
ling force of one hundred and forty-five
horse-power.-Emgineering.
The Universalist. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1884-1897, 1887-06-11
UNCLE SANS BOOKCASE.


In an article on this subject in the
April Cosmopolitan, Frank G. Carpenter
says:
cit contains five hundred and sixty
thousand bound volumes, two hundred
thousand pamphlets, and three hundred
and fifty Thousand sheets of music, and it
has tens Of thousands of works of art,
maps, and photographs. It's annual in
crease from copyright alone amounts to
from twenty to thirty thousand volumes.
1t is the great brain reservoir of the
United States. 1t contains a complete
index Of the workings of the American
mind. Everything in literature, music,
or art that is copyrighted must be de-
posted in it, and the brain reels in at
tempting to conceive how many lives Of
intellectual workers are packed away
upon it's shelves.
"In company with one of it's librarians
lately took walk through it's various
parts, and spent nearly halliday wind
ing in and out through aisle after aisle and
wall after wall Of books, picking my way
between great stacks of volumes and en-
tering room after room which the eye of
the ordinary visitor never sees. The Ma
tional library is at the west end of the
great Capitol. Its thousands of volumes
have long since overlooked its capacity,
until now every available inch of space
is utilized, and every room in the vicinity
is stacked with books.
"The very floors of the Library are
piled up with overflow, and the shelves
seem almost bursting with their tightly
packed contents. The Library proper,
which is also the reading room, consists
Of long, hall-like room with wings at
each end jutting off like the head of T..
The reading-room is ninety one feet long,
thirty -four feet wide, and thirty -four feet
high. Its walls are made up of rectan-
gular alcoves, each about the size of a
small hall bedroom, and shut off from the
room by door of iron lattice work. The
walls of these alcoves are filled with
books and there are three galleries of
them rising one above another. In the
front of the upper galleries are balus-
trades, and these have also been lined
on the inside with book-shelves, SO that
as you walk along the narrow galleries,
you almost Craze the books on either
side"
The Universalist. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1884-1897, 1887-06-11
ANASTASIA ISLAND.

No one who visits st. Augustine should
neglect to visit Anastasia Island, directly
opposite the city, across the harbor, lying
as Cape Elizabeth does from Portland.
A short sail in the ferry takes the tourist
to the island, where unique horse, Tor,
more correctly, mulel railroad leads to
the high and finely proportional light
house which stands guard over the en-
trance to the harbor. The car is of a
primitive style of construction, but the
ever-patient and hard-working mules
take their load along through marsh
safely and speedily to the end. From
the top of the lighthouse magnificent
view is to be had. To be sure, the seem
cry lacks the varied and broken surface
of the north, but as far as the eye can
reach inland is one level expanse of land,
broken by the city which lies at our feet,
and the streams Of water which occasion
ally relieve the surface of the landscape.
Seward the beach and old ocean form a
most delightful picture. A pleasant stroll
OF a few minutes in the direction of the
sea brings us to the magnificent beach.
1t is facing this that large hotel seems
to be demanded, for it is one of the most
delightful spots on the southern Atlantic
coast. The wide, smooth beach extends
for long distance in either direction,
and every storm casts up on it's surface
myriads Of the beautiful shells peculiar
to semi-tropical ATTITUDES, which are
speedily picked up by the numerous Gu
riosity seekers. On the shore near the
path from the lighthouse to the beach,
are the ruins of the old Spanish light
house, which was built of coquina and
covered considerable ground. A short
distance away are the quarries from which
this composite stone is taken out for
building purposes. This is the only sub
stance having any semblance to rock to
be found in Florida, and that only can
be obtained on the coast and in few
places on the upper st. Johns river. Else.
where not stone large enough to throw
at scratching hen can be found on the
top OF the soil. From this point on the
oeach the winding passage to the harbor
passes 10y. The channel is full of bars,
and it is with difficulty that vessels can
enter. A scheme is proposed, however,
backed by private capital, and govern
ment aid, OF course, to dredge out deep
and more direct channel, and make st.
Augustine the maritime port of Florida
instead of Jacksonville. But this lies far
in the future.-Portldnd Times.
The Universalist. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1884-1897, 1887-06-11
Points About Flowers.

There is pretty fable of the angel and
the rosebud. 1t is said that "the angel
who takes care of the flowers and
sprinkles upon them dew in the still
night slumbered on spring day in the
shade OF a rosebush. When he awoke he
said: Most beautiful of my children, 1
thank thee for thy refreshing odor and
cooling shade. Could you now ask any
favor, how willingly would grant itY
'Adorn me, then, with new CHARM said
the spirit of the rosebud in beseeching
tone. So the angel adorned the loveliest
of flowers with simple moss. Sweetly it
stood there in it's modest attire, the moss
rose, the most beautiful of its kind. So
the costliest ornaments are often the
simplest"
If you wish to cut flowers to be sent
away early in the morning, they are best
cut over night and placed in pans or jars
of water; and they should be cut in the
morning and similarly treated if they are
TO be dispatched in the evening. They
will thus be perfectly fresh, and their
stems well charged with moisture. Roses
especially, should not be packed in a
fully blown state; if they are to be really
serviceable when they reach their desti-
nation, they ought not to be more than
half blown.
The celosias rank among the best of all
ANNALS for pot culture. They may be
grown to a height of four feet, and as
much in diameter. They produce mag
nifcent plume-shaped spikes of flowers,
are both graceful and snowy, and exceed
ingly well adapted for greenhouse, con-
servatory or room decoration. They are
easily raised from seeds, and grow rapid
ly.-EngliSh Garden.
"Flowers, by their subtle witchery, call
one away from earth and its cares. Their
fragrance seems the very breath of the
angels, and their growth speaks of God.
The care of them is like a physical, a
mental and a spiritual beneit-sye, even
means of grace; and SO again say, cul-
tivate flowers"
Coleus plants, says a correspondent of
The Ladies Home Companion, are much
brighter in color when grown under glass
in summer than when bedded out
Fuchsias may prove very satisfactory
oedded flowers if they are given q place
well shaded from the hot MONDAY sun.
The Universalist. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1884-1897, 1887-06-11
FOR WIVES AND HUSBANDS.

A sunshiny husband makes merry,
beautiful home worth having, worth
working in and for. II man is breezy,
CHEEKY, considerate and sympathetic, his
wife sings in her heart over her pud-
dings and her mending- basket, and re-
news her youth in the security she feels
OF his appreciation and admiration. You
may think it weak and childish, if you
please, but it is the admired wife, the
wife who hears words of praise and who
receives smiles of commentator, who is
capable, discreet and effective. I have
seen timid, meek, self distrusting little
body fairly bloom into strong, reliant
womanhood under the tonic and cordial
of companionship of husband who re-
ally went out Of his way to find occasion
for showing her how fully he trusted her
judgment, and how fully he deferred to
her opinion.
Now, il you will permit me, will give
some suggestions to the wives also. Be-
cause your husband is a lover of peace
and quietness and does not always
pay back in your own coin you must not
think that your continued scolding and
fault-fnding make no more impression
upon him than the fall of water upon a
ducks back. 1t sinks, and "still waters
runs Deep" you know. These quiet men
are perfect volcanoes sometimes when
endurance ceases to be virtue. There
are times when "the last feather breaks
the camers back" II you were sweet
and gentle to your lover, continue to be
SO to your husband, if you wish to retain
his affection and loyalty. am aware
that some men are not very sunshiny,
but think more would be willing to re-
fleet the golden beams if their wives
would adopt the halo plano Cleveland
Plaindealer.
The Universalist. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1884-1897, 1887-06-11
GIANT SUNS.

Consider the evidence in the case of
Sirius, for example. The distance of
Sirius has not been accurately determin-
ed, though he is down in the list of stars
supposed by many to lie at known dis
tances. The astronomer knows that in
reality all the stare, save one or two, in
the list of fifteen or twenty thus formed,
lie at distances too great to be measure
BILE by the instruments at present in use.
Still we know enough about the distance
of Sirius to be able to say with confidence
that he is certainly three times farther
away than Alpha Centauri, the nearest of
all the stars, and probably not more than
six times farther away. If we set Sirius
four times as far away as Alpha Centauri,
we shall probably not be far from the
| truth. Now it has been shown by careful
comparison of our suns light with that of
Alpha Centauri that were our sun set be-
side that star, he would shine with about
one third the luster of that nearest neigh
Dor of ours among the stars; therefore If
carried four times farther away, by which
his light would be reduced, not fourfold,
but sixteenfold, the sun would give but
one 48th part as much light as Alpha
Centauri. or one 1924 part (ssy, in round
numbers, one 20Oth psr) of the light of
Sirius, which shines four times more
brightly in the heavens than the nearer
star. Now we know nothing of the in
trinsic lustre of the surface Of Sirius; but
from the researches of st. Claire Deville,
Vicaire, and other physicists, it seems
unlikely that the intrinsic luster OF any
surface can much exceed that Of the visi-
BILE surface of our sun. Surprising the
surface of Sirius to be twice as lustrous
as our suns, then Sirius must have
surface 100 times as large as our suns
Whose surface is nearly 10000 times the
earth's), which would make the diameter
of Sirius ten times the SUMS, and his
globe 1000 times as great as even that
giant orb of the sun, which exceeds our
earth's in volume 100000 times. 1t
seems reasonable TO regard such differ
ence as one rather of kind than merely OF
degree Jupiter exceeds our earth 1850
times in volume, and we regard Jupiter
therefore not merely as a larger earth,
but as giant planet unlike CUR earth in
character. The sun exceeds Jupiter more
The Universalist. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1884-1897, 1887-06-11

of the heroic woman did not falter, and it
was through her good judgment and in
trepidity that much of the cargo was
saved for the underwriters.
Indeed, there have been many wives Of
sea captains of Maine who have been as
capable of commanding ship as their
husbande, and it is we'll known that if
anything befalls them, their wives take
command as a matter of course.
Mrs. Libby, of Saco, Maine, was no less
intrepid than others of her sister naviga-
tors. She had accompanied her husband
on a voyage to the Chincha Islands, where
he died, upon which sad event, distrust-
ing the capacity Of the mate, she assumed
command. She took observations and
planned the course of the voyage with
the skill of person who thoroughly un-
derstood her Part. She took her turn at
the wheel and boxed the compass equal
to the best captain on any line; stood
down the Pacific coast, doubled the
stormy Cape Horn, turned north up the
Atlantic coast, and brought her ship tri-
umphantly into Boston Harbor.
have cited these and other cases in
my lecture on "The Dignity of Labor"
forty years ago, when advocated the
right Of woman to do whatever she was
capable of doing in the way of earning
an honest living, saying that "the meas
ure Of capacity is the measure Of sphere
to either man or woman" Nor did fail
to notice the brave work Of Mrs. Miller
on the "raging canawl," who, when her
husband became disabled, for years COM
manded canal boat on the Erie Canal.
The Universalist. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1884-1897, 1887-06-11
ORIGIN OF DoMINOES.

Amedee Ponthieu has written an elab-
crate article about the game of Domino"
Tor, as it is called, "dominoes'J, and con-
tends that it dates back to the sixth GEN.
fury.
Two monks of the celebrated monas.
terry of Monte Casino, who were confined
in the Jail for a trihing disobedience, in
vented, in order to kill the dreary hours
of their imprisonment, game with small,
white, square pieces Of chalk, into which
they cut small holes, which they colored,
and with which they played. Being
watched by the jailer Of the monastery,
they commenced to sing with a loud
voice the beginning OF the psalm, "Dixit
Dominus Domino" as soon as they heard
the jailer coming, and repeated these
words until the dangerous man was
gone. After having been released they
manufactured square pieces OF wood and
ivory with black holes, and sold them to
other monks. Thus the game was soon
spread throughout Italy.
The Universalist. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1884-1897, 1887-06-11

Have you noticed how plentiful they
are just at present, and have been ever
since the first of the year? They will
begin to get scarce again in about six
weeks. Twice year-just before the
Fourth of July and Christmas they be-
come conspicuous articles of commerce
by their absence from general circula-
ton. The reason for this semi-annual
scarcity is due to the practice that most
families have of providing jug in which
the little ones of the household may de-
posit the money they have given and keep
it until the holidays arrive. AS the
money they are given is generally in the
denomination of pennies, this economic
habit is the means of retiring temporari-
ly from the street millions of the copper
coins. There are, at least million fami-
lies in this country in which the Fourth
of July and Christmas jugs form part Of
the furniture. Multiply the million jugs
by innumerable pennies, and you can
see what difference it will make for the
time being in business circles. remem-
Der just prior to last Christmas that it
was mooted question whether the gov
eminent should not issue more pennies
as there were not enough to enable re-
tail business to be done without a great
deal of inconvenience. AS soon as De-
cember rs had passed, out came the PEN
MES, and they have been nuisance ever
since. Who would think the little ones
OF the country could control the money
to such an extent?-Philddelp Call.
The Universalist. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1884-1897, 1887-06-11
DANDELIONS.
BY FANNY FALES.

Over the meadow, as if countless stars
The earth were visiting,
Adown the green slope to the cattle-bars
Beside the sedgy spring,
The dandelions twinkle in the sod.
Lighted by touch of God.
Children, a-tumble in their eager joy.
Amid the blossoms play;
Curl the pink stems, pleased as with some
new toy,
And blow with glee away
The seedy caps from heads grown gray and
old,
Bankrupt of their fine gold.
O meadow, sprinkled with Danaen shower,
I'm minded of life's spring,
When joys and hopes shone like starry
flower.
But they long since took wing,
Like phantom turbans children blow to-day
With rosy lips away.
in other fields the scattered seeds will bear,
some morning, blossoms bright;
And Joys departed may yield otherwhere
A garland of delight.
For naught is lost, change but from change is
wrought,
AS thought is born of thought.
From some fair garden in the Orient
Were dandelions brought:
Blossom unknown, what wealth of words were
spent
Singing their praise: how sought
The unprized flower, with disk of FURNISHED
gold,
The grasses reach to fold.
Along the margin of the dusty street
The leafy lamps are seen;
And in the grassy path where careless rect
Trample their fringy sheen.
Spring we're not spring without the humble
flower
That loves the morning hour.
The Universalist. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1884-1897, 1887-06-11
In BARRIERS shop in New York

In BARRIERS shop in New York is
a shaving cup bearing the name of P. T.
Barnum. He used to get shaved in Tom
Higginson's shop as far back as thirty
years ago, but it is some time since he
has used that cup. That Vas the shop in
which he bought an Irishman's turn in
the chair, saying he would pay his bill,
and Tom Higginson not only shaved the
man, but shampooed him, curled his hair,
dyed his beard, gave him bath, and ran
up bill Of several dollars for Barnum
to pay.
The Universalist. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1884-1897, 1887-06-11
THE LAND OF OLD PEOPLE.

Germany is, to greater extent than is
commonly suspected, land of old peo-
pie. At the time of the last census there
were in the Empire no fewer than 232
persons who had completed their Tooth
year. OF these 70 we're men and 100 wo-
men. The oldest person in Germany
was a man in his 10th year; the next was
a man in his 18th year; the next was
woman in her 117th year. There were
Is old fellows Of LOG, and 10 danes of LOT.
A lady of l15 was returned as being a
spinster.